Myspace Top Eight
Posted by: David Bunch
My niece gives me regular updates on how many of her friends have her in their top eight. Yea, some even have her in the top two. Some of the really good ones have her as number one. You have to realize, this positioning fluctuates daily. There is an outright competition to see who can land-and remain-in a popular pal's myspace top eight.
A single guy here at work was talking to a single gal from another floor of the building. Things were going great until he replaced her top eight position on his myspace page with another girl. She retaliated by deleting him from her friends list altogether, and now no longer acknowledges his existence. And they are thirtysomethings!
My wife reports that a local radio station morning show consisting of two males and one female host had a particularly heated show the other morning because the female spent the morning bemoaning the fact that she had been removed from the two guys' top eight. Callers were livid with the two nefarious men, and recommended that the lady remove them from her friends list altogether. These are adults!
So what is up with this myspace top eight rage? I mean come on, is it really that big of a deal? Should people really care whose top eight they are on (or off)?
This cultural phenomenon amazes me. First, I don't care if I'm on your top eight or not. Really. When I wake up in the mornings that is the last thing on my mind. Second, even in making that last statement this phenomenon is an indicator that despite all of the walls we construct, the masks we don, and the facades we hide behind, we all want to be accepted.
That includes me and my claim to top eight ambivalence.
My niece gives me regular updates on how many of her friends have her in their top eight. Yea, some even have her in the top two. Some of the really good ones have her as number one. You have to realize, this positioning fluctuates daily. There is an outright competition to see who can land-and remain-in a popular pal's myspace top eight.
A single guy here at work was talking to a single gal from another floor of the building. Things were going great until he replaced her top eight position on his myspace page with another girl. She retaliated by deleting him from her friends list altogether, and now no longer acknowledges his existence. And they are thirtysomethings!
My wife reports that a local radio station morning show consisting of two males and one female host had a particularly heated show the other morning because the female spent the morning bemoaning the fact that she had been removed from the two guys' top eight. Callers were livid with the two nefarious men, and recommended that the lady remove them from her friends list altogether. These are adults!
So what is up with this myspace top eight rage? I mean come on, is it really that big of a deal? Should people really care whose top eight they are on (or off)?
This cultural phenomenon amazes me. First, I don't care if I'm on your top eight or not. Really. When I wake up in the mornings that is the last thing on my mind. Second, even in making that last statement this phenomenon is an indicator that despite all of the walls we construct, the masks we don, and the facades we hide behind, we all want to be accepted.
That includes me and my claim to top eight ambivalence.
wow, that would be one good reason to not EVEN get addicted to myspace. blogging is bad enough :)
Posted by
Liz |
Thu Aug 24, 11:01:00 AM 2006